University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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SCHOOL OF LAW In law school, students are taught to observe the canons of ethics of the Amer¬ ican Bar Association and to heed the oath taken on admission to the bar. Both the canons and the oath set standards of conduct which, if followed by leaders within a nation, might prevent international strife and make world peace more than a wish. This oath reads in part: I will not counsel or maintain any cause which is unjust; I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the cause confided to me such means only as are consistent with accepted standards of truth and honor and will never seek to mislead by any false statement; and I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed”. Julian Seesel Waterman. 29

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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Man has three fundamental physical needs—food, clothing, and shelter. Our College of Agriculture deals with all three fundamentals and attempts to teach how to obtain a satisfactory supply of each. When an individual—or a nation—finds difficulty in satisfying needs, restless¬ ness and ferment arise. Sometimes individuals adopt unsocial methods to satisfy them. Nations go to war to appease their wants. Our College of Agriculture, therefore, deals with those goods, which, when secured in abundance, encourage peace among individuals and nations. Man is a social animal. Our College of Agriculture does not, therefore, stop with instruction in methods of obtaining the three fundamentals. It completes its program by adding economics and sociology as they bear upon rural life. Dan T. Gray. 28

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION One needs no training in economic theory to realize the follies and futilities of war. Undersanding of economics, however, is required to comprehend the fallacies of that nostrum frequently advanced as a cure of war—self-containment—but so often its cause. The most popular argument for national self-containment is that it would guar¬ antee peace. If the truth of this hypothesis could be established, I am sure every economist would embrace nationalism, for the costs of a war on the scale of the Great War exceed the gains to a nation from foreign trade. That some of the causes of war have been economic none can doubt. But would the closing of national markets to all foreigners promote world peace? Eco¬ nomic science teaches that economic nationalism is wealth-destroying. Education in economics, therefore, points to world peace, not through policies of self-contained nationalism, but through Secretary Cordell Hull’s policies of liber¬ al, economic cooperation. 30 Charles Clifton Fichtner.